Example Sentences

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Dad had weighted down the note with the salt shaker.

From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold

The lassitude that had weighted every joint in his sick little body had fled, to be replaced by a strange, glorious buoyancy.

From The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play by Rae, John

But the boys had weighted it down with rocks and pegged its net ropes to the ground.

From The Boy Aviators in Africa by Goldfrap, John Henry

The slow poison that had weighted and soaked her limbs so gradually these many months past, was closing in at last upon her heart, and her pain was gathering to its last assault.

From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Benson, Robert Hugh

Day by day, Fanny threw off somewhat of the homesickness which had weighted her at coming.

From At Fault by Chopin, Kate